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Lemony Snicket is one of the funniest authors I've read. His perspectives on life, books, reading, and passports made me laugh. Not a hard read, seeing as the book consists of quotes, one per page. Hilarious!

A collection of short texts, sometimes funny, sometimes dark, sometimes poetry. Especially Snicket's sense of humour fascinates me: It can be childish or very dark or just strikingly odd - and sometimes all of these at the same time - and you just wonder how he does that.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired, a word which here means 'happened and made everybody sad'.